- Masawaih al-Mardini
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Masawaih al-Mardini (Yahyā ibn Masawaih al-Mardini; known as Mesue the Younger) was an Arabian physician. He was born in Mardin, Upper Mesopotamia. After working in Baghdad, he entered to the service of the Fatimid caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah. He died in 1015 in Cairo at the age of ninety.[1][2]
Masawaih al-Mardini was a Nestorian Christian. He is known due to its books on purgatives and emetics (De medicins laxativis) and on the complete pharmacopoeia in 12 parts called the Antidotarium sive Grabadin medicamentorum, which remained for centuries the standard text-book of pharmacy in the West.[1][2]
He also described methods of distillation of empyreumatic oils. A method of extracting oil from "some kind of bituminous shale", one of the first descriptions of extraction of shale oil was described by him in the 10th century.[2]
References
- ^ a b Sarton, George (1975). Introduction to the History of Science: From Homer to Omar Khayyam. 1. R. E. Krieger Pub. Co.. p. 574. ISBN 9780882751726.
- ^ a b c Forbes, R.J. (1970). A Short History of the Art of Distillation from the Beginnings Up to the Death of Cellier Blumenthal. Brill Publishers. pp. 41–42. ISBN 9789004006171. http://books.google.com/books?id=u_tui-7XXF0C&pg=PA41. Retrieved 2009-06-02.
Medicine in the medieval Islamic world Physicians Concepts Works The Canon of Medicine • Anatomy Charts of the Arabs • The Book of Healing • Book of the Ten Treatises of the Eye • De Gradibus • Al-Tasrif • Zakhireye Khwarazmshahi • Adab al-Tabib ("Practical Ethics of the Physician")
Centers Bimaristan • Nur al-Din Bimaristan • Al-'Adudi
Influences Influenced Categories:- Medieval Arab physicians
- Medieval Egyptian physicians
- Medieval Iraqi physicians
- 1015 deaths
- Physicians of medieval Islam
- 11th-century physicians
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